The latest Scots Whay Hae! podcast is a @bloodyscotland.bsky.social prizewinners special, with @franapunk.bsky.social – the first joint winner of the Debut Novel Prize & the McIlvanney Prize – & Caroline Grebbell, winner of this year’s Pitch Perfect #Booksky 💙📚 www.scotswhayhae.com/post/bloody-...

Bloody Scotland Prize Winners Special: The Scots Whay Hae! Podcast Talks To Frances Crawford & Caroline Grebbell...

The latest Scots Whay Hae! podcast is a Bloody Scotland Prize Winners Special, with the first joint winner of the Debut novel prize and the McIlvanney Prize for Best Crime Book of the Year Frances Cra...

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READY FOR A DEADLY EVENING? Join Chris Brookmyre (Quite Ugly One Evening) and Frances Crawford (A Bad, Bad Place) for a thrilling conversation about crime, mystery, secrets and justice. Thurs 19 Nov | 8.30pm | £12 Chaired by Hugo Rifkind. www.ticketsource.com/standrewsboo...

www.wigtownbookfestival.com Chatting about A Bad Bad Place in this beautiful town, Sunday 4th Oct, noon #Wigtownbookfestival

Wigtown Book Festival | Literary festival and events through the year

Our ten-day book festival in Scotland’s National Book Town is part of a year-round programme for readers and writers of all ages in Dumfries and Galloway

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Overwhelmed by warm kind messages after my surprise Debut and McIlvanney Awards at @bloodyscotland.bsky.social Huge thanks to @damedenisemina.bsky.social for supporting me both physically and emotionally 🥰 A weekend to remember 📸Paul Reich

📒📕📘📗📕 The @bloodyscotland.bsky.social Crime Debut of the Year winner will be announced this Friday in Stirling. The first all-female shortlist and 5 fantastic books. @franapunk.bsky.social @flamingredhead.bsky.social @kirstystrickland.bsky.social Zoë Rankin @mayrinaldiauthor.bsky.social

Next week! Get your tickets! bloodyscotland.com/event/gory-g...

Gory Glesga: Eva McRae, Frances Crawford, Callum McSorley, Martin Stewart - 540213 - Bloody Scotland

We go west in pursuit of banter, bodies and bampots with four of the finest exponents of Glasgow crime fiction.An […]

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Sad news for the Scottish arts scene, and our diminishing print media. www.theskinny.co.uk/music/news/t...

The Skinny is closing

After 20 years of independent cultural journalism and with a very heavy heart, September’s edition of The Skinny is our final issue.

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Jeez-oh 😳 I made the McIvanney shortlist! Wish I had better words to describe how grateful I am, have to settle for THANK YOU judges THANK YOU @bloodyscotland.bsky.social

📣📚 Tickets now available @flamingredhead.bsky.social in conversation with @gillianshirreffs.bsky.social: Original Sins www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/linda-dunc...

Linda Duncan McLaughlin in conversation: Original Sins

Join Linda Duncan McLaughlin for a lively chat diving into the twists and turns of Original Sins.

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I'm at Bloody Scotland on Friday 18th Sept for the History in the Making panel with A. E. Goldin, @cressidadowning.bsky.social and @marcorinaldi.bsky.social - book tickets here: bloodyscotland.com/booking/7327... @bloodyscotland.bsky.social @panmacmillan.bsky.social @jennybrownagency.bsky.social

Fired up for Edinburgh Festival. Short reading from A Bad Bad Place at Val & Jo’s event (what a privilege!) and discussing secrets with Jennie Godfrey (also a privilege!) @valmcdermid.bsky.social @jenniegauthor.bsky.social

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Orenda Books@orendabooks.bsky.social · 2mo ago

🪦💛IT'S PUBLICATION DAY!💛🪦 IT'S HERE! Happy #PublicationDay to the BRILLIANT @dougjohnstone.bsky.social for the publication of #GhostNotes💛, book 7 in the BELOVED #TheSkelfs series🪦 🙌ORDER YOUR COPY NOW!🙌 PRINT: 🔗https://geni.us/EAB4ov EBOOK: 🔗https://geni.us/1H3aI9 #TeamOrenda #Bookstagram

Utterly gobsmacked to win McDermid Debut Award @harrogatefestivals.bsky.social Every writer on the shortlist is amazingly talented and I’m so grateful to judges for choosing A Bad Bad Place ❤️🥹

Lovely Bluesky! Can you support our audio series by chucking in a tenner towards our production costs? Creative Scotland will match all pledges up to £250!

Cops and Monsters@copsandmonsters.bsky.social · 3mo ago

42 days left to hit our £10,000 goal! Creative Scotland will match pledges up to £250 at www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/qr/8WOke58... so please grab a perk and help us bring our new audio series to life 🧛🏼‍♀️

@harrogatefestivals.bsky.social #TheakstonsCrime Last year I wore A Bad Bad Place t-shirt to Harrogate hoping someone might ask about it. This year I’m shortlisted for McDermid Debut Award. A teeny miracle 🥹

Thank you @bloodyscotland.bsky.social for making this a very special year ❤️

Bloody Scotland@bloodyscotland.bsky.social · 3mo ago

@franapunk.bsky.social is having a very good year! Short-listed for the McDermid Debut Prize, our Debut Prize and now long-listed for the McIlvanney Prize. You can see her on the 'Gory Glesga' panel on Sunday 20th Sep: bloodyscotland.com/event/gory-g...

Never in my wildest dreams…thank you @bloodyscotland.bsky.social A Bad Bad Place, McIlvanney longlist 2026

Looking out across the Park District, with its distinctive Victorian towers, from the Hamiltonhill Claypits Nature Reserve in the north of Glasgow. #glasgow #cityscape #architecture #architecturephotography #parkdistrict

Very proud to be on this list www.npr.org/2026/06/23/n... @sohopress.bsky.social

NPR staffers share their favorite fiction reads of 2026 so far

Facts by day, fiction by night! At the end of a long day in the newsroom, many of our journalists head home and escape into novels of all types.

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I'm featuring Book 1 in my new spin-off series THE HIGH ISLAND at BLOODY SCOTLAND in Stirling on 18th September. It's a 'Death on the Island' event with authors Alex Grey & Andrew Raymond. Tickets : https://bit.ly/4ezIxLe #BloodyScotland #LinAnderson #TheHighIsland

The programme for the 2026 Edinburgh International Book Festival is now online, with over 600 events: talks, interviews, gigs, podcasts, workshops, food events, book signings & more, for Adults, Young Adults, and Children & Families. Tickets on sale from 25 June. 💙📚 www.edbookfest.co.uk/events

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September can’t come soon enough!! bloodyscotland.com/event/debut-...

Topping off a busy day here at Bloody Scotland towers - It was great to catch up with Stuart MacBride on the podcast (it's been too long!), and to hear from Frances Crawford - one of our debut Prize shortlisters. Listen Here: bloodyscotland.podbean.com

Bursting with pride to be part of super exciting launch day @bloodyscotland.bsky.social 2026. Met some of my all time heroes and hung out with my Debut Shortlist buddies. And Denise Mina 🤩 📸 Paul Reich #BloodyScotland

Not long now...! bloodyscotland.com/whats-on/

To be shortlisted is amazing, to be included in this lineup is overwhelming 🥹Quote is from Denise Mina, this year’s guest curator. Mon the wimmin! @bloodyscotland.bsky.social

#hayfestival @hayfestival.bsky.social 📸 Adam Tatton-Reid Big love to everyone who braved a sweltering tent for my event with Val McDermid and queued for book signing. You made an old debut writer very welcome and very happy 🤗

Hay Festival 5.30 Tuesday 26th. I’m appearing with Val McDermid and would be grovelingly grateful to anyone who can make it 😊🙏🤗

@FrancesC.bsky.social@franapunk.bsky.social · 5mo ago

What a privilege and a thrill to be appearing ontstage with @valmcdermid.bsky.social at @hayfestival.bsky.social in May. So excited I may pop!

Utterly gobsmacked to be shortlisted for McDermid Debut Award 2026! And honoured to be in such amazing company. Info on the Theakston Crime Awards website here: bit.ly/TheakstonsAwards #TheakstonsAwards #TheakstonsCrime @harrogatefestivals.bsky.social